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Posted Fri, 03/24/2023 - 3:09pm

Adventuring with Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi

Ella Al-Shamahi is a paleoanthropologist, a television personality, an intrepid explorer, and even a stand-up comic. What’s more, she’s everything you want your daughter to be when she grows up: successful, fearless, well-spoken, intelligent, and a delight to be around. Born of Yemeni parents in England, she’s much more than a modern-day female Indiana Jones – she’s helping to change assumptions about who scientists and archaeologists are.

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Posted Wed, 03/01/2023 - 3:09pm

Looking Beyond the Temples at the People of Angkor – with Alison Carter, PhD

Angkor is an archaeologist’s dream, and a few of them are looking beyond the temples that draw 2.5 million tourists a year to better understand the people who lived and worked there. One of these archaeologists is Alison Carter, PhD.

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Posted Tue, 02/07/2023 - 3:27pm

Writer and Sleuth Jason Felch Pieces Together the Antiquities Black Market

Starting in 2005, investigative reporter Jason Felch helped to break open a sordid tale of antiquities curators, shady middlemen, and modern looted artifacts in museums across the USA. Over the next seven years, Felch and his co-authors published nearly 40 articles in the LA Times, many of them front page stories. The tale was so complex that it took a book, Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World’s Richest Museum, to lay out the full scope of the decades-long saga.

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